Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción

The Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral (Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción) also called Granada Cathedral is a neoclassical Catholic cathedral located in Granada, Nicaragua, 40 kilometres (25 mi) southeast of Managua. The church is the main temple of the Diocese of Granada, and its bishop is Jorge Solórzano Pérez. The first cathedral temple was built around 1525 with tapicel and rafaz stone, brick, lime and straw roof. By 1578, the church had already been burned twice. Seven years later, in 1585, it started to become known colloquially as "La Iglesia Bonita," or "The Beautiful Church." The second temple was completed in about 1751 with lime, stone, and brick. In 1916, the iron frame intended for the central dome was brought from the United States, only three years after the Diocese of Granada was created by the Roman Catholic Church. By 1928, with the dome already built, the cathedral was nevertheless one of a few in any Latin American city with one tower only. According to historian and poet Francisco Obando Somarriba in his book " La Primera Dama del Liberalismo (page 58, Chapter XIII), it was in that same year when the Bishop of Granada, His Eminence Canuto José Reyes y Balladares, a stern member of the Conservative Party, denied the eucharistial gift of communion to Doña Angelica Balladares Montealegre de Arguello Vargas, her distant relative

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